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Government had to adopt a policy of in
principle returning all illegal immigrants
unless there were powerful humanitarian
reasons for doing otherwise in individual
cases. But at the same time we agreed with
the Government of China to accept 75 a day
arriving at our borders with one way
permits. As a result we have been accepting
for settlement in Hong Kong 27,000 a year, still
giving us a very high rate of legal
immigration in world terms.
اجمل
le.
Sir, We
were particularly sympathetic on in
humanitarian terms when considering whether
to allow children who had come to Hong Kong whether to allow them to stay. illegally to join their mothers here, But
our practice became more and more exploited
by the so-called snakeheads. · Increasingly
being large numbers of children were/smuggled in
illegally, often putting their lives at risk.
So To put a stop to this illegal and dangerous
activity, on 27 April 1987 the Government
announced its decision to tighten the
humanitarian grounds under which some
were being
illegal immigrant children had been allowed
to stay.